Even if she did tell you something you hadn’t know previously which you could then verify, would you not be worried that you actually had known it, and simply “forgotten”, and your subconscious had pushed it up in a dream?

Damn us sceptics.

Presumably the worry would subside if she managed to provide many highly specific pieces of information…

On the fate of the Universe, a Big Crunch isn’t so popular amongst scientists at the moment, after the discovery in the last decade that the Universe is not being slowed down by gravity, as was initially thought the only possible scenario, but accelerating. Nobody has a convincing mechanism for this yet, but there’s a fair bit of evidence that it’s happening. Far be it for the semi-trained physicist to dispel your theories, though: like climate change, at the moment, though the nerdier you are the more complicated a justification you can provide, I think the chances of anyone being right given the current level of understanding are about the same irrespective of training…